Christo RIP

**kernelbogey** · 01-06-20, 08:23

**vinteuil** · 01-06-20, 09:29

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Obituary: Christo Javacheff, the artist who wrapped the world

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44254036

The artist known as Christo was famous for wrapping huge buildings and entire coastlines in fabric.

The Mastaba in the Serpentine a year or so back was a thing of joy -

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The London Mastaba - Serpentine Galleries

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/christo-and-jeanne-claude-london-mastaba

Christo presented The London Mastaba, a temporary floating sculpture on the Serpentine Lake.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

https://christojeanneclaude.net/mobile/projects?p=the-london-mastaba

Official website of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Features photographs and texts about all major projects, early works, and works in progress. Includes biographical and bibliographical information as well as past, current, and upcoming exhibitions.

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**Serial_Apologist** · 01-06-20, 11:46

Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

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Obituary: Christo Javacheff, the artist who wrapped the world

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44254036

The artist known as Christo was famous for wrapping huge buildings and entire coastlines in fabric.

The Mastaba in the Serpentine a year or so back was a thing of joy -

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The London Mastaba - Serpentine Galleries

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/christo-and-jeanne-claude-london-mastaba

Christo presented The London Mastaba, a temporary floating sculpture on the Serpentine Lake.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

https://christojeanneclaude.net/mobile/projects?p=the-london-mastaba

Official website of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Features photographs and texts about all major projects, early works, and works in progress. Includes biographical and bibliographical information as well as past, current, and upcoming exhibitions.

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While saying I didn't like it at all, I have to admit it was a remarkable construction.

**kernelbogey** · 01-06-20, 13:33

I have never seen any of his (their) creations 'live'. But the wrapped Reichstag building seems to me a great work of art, deserving of outstanding status - on so many levels.

**kernelbogey** · 01-06-20, 13:43

Guardian obituary by Charles Darwent:

Christo obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/01/christo-obituary

Bulgarian artist who found fame with his great art project of wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin

Christo RIP

Christo RIP

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